[PRL] AI Koans
Paul Steckler
steck at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Apr 30 11:54:51 EDT 2003
> A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning
> the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was
> doing spoke sternly: "You can not fix a machine by just
> power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going
> wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
Do not try this at home, er, at work. The Sun boxes should
not be power-cycled!
However, if you can still find a Symbolics machine around CCIS,
feel free to power-cycle it.
-- Paul
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